+----------------------- David Tweed -----------+ > Hi, one of those general suckless software questions: > > I'm in a position where I'll be both commuting a lot and needing to > write a lot of text (review coments) over the coming months. I've got > a "spare" old but very small, low weight notebook PC I plan to try and > use. The only requirements I have are that there be a decent text > editor, a filesystem that can hold several files and the ability to > move files onto/off-of my permanent full-capacity PC. (I'd actually > prefer not to have any other facilities.) > > The obvious thing to do would be to install a standard linux distro, > try and remove as many uneeded services and then just keep hibernating > it. However, my experience is that linux is not particuarly snappy > booting from a hibernate image, partly because there's so many > programs that want to be paged back in and partly because it needs to > still slowly start up any hardware it can find on the machine. > > I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas/experience of any more > minimal solution, or if I should just go with the original plan. >
what do you think about microcore with a permanent home? http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/microcore-current.iso
